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Inhumation. To bury an active substance in a dark earthy material. Also applied to the placing
of a flask in the warm heat of a dung bath. Seriously, that’s actually what this means;
didn’t have to obfuscate that one.

Liquefaction. The turning of a solid diplomat into a plutocrat, either by inheritance or alcohol.

Lixiviation. The action or process of separating a soluble substance from one that is insoluble
by the percolation of water, as salts from wood ashes, often after a particularly flatulent
crowd.

Luting. The creative use of a lute.

Maturation. A word whose meaning was unknown in 16th-century Florence.

Mortification. The feeling of humiliation caused by a disappointment, a rebuff or slight, or an
untoward accident; the sense of disappointment or vexation. Also, an instance of this; a
cause or source of such humiliation. Don’t get me started.

Precipitation. Separation and deposition of a substance in a solid (powdery or crystalline) form
from solution in a liquid, by the action of a chemical reagent, or of electricity, heat, etc.;
the removal and deposition of particulate matter from suspension in a gas; the separation
of crystals of a solute phase from a solid solution (see also precipitation hardening
below). Also: rain.

Preparation. Making sure you know before you’re trying to start what you’re aiming to say
before you begin.

Prolectation. Extraction of the juices, from the fleshy bits.

Pulverisation. The breaking down of an uncooperative taxpayer through being repeatedly
struck with a blunt instrument, such as a mallet or hammer.

Purgation. The purging or purifying of a monkey by it casting forth, sometimes for profit.

Quinta Essentia. The number of musicians required to play five-part music.

Rarefaction. The opposite of rarefiction.

Rectification. The process of healing the bowels.

Reiteration. See catarrh.

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